I dropped by to see my mum this morning. She was walking through the hallways of the residence with her walker, to her physiotherapist-daughter’s great approval. She greeted me in a booming voice which I interpreted as her being delighted to see me and continued to speak very animatedly, our conversation travelling along parallel lines, …
Sometime after October 31st, lawn-decorating enthusiasts everywhere replace their Halloween inflatables with Christmas inflatables. Anchored in the ground, they stand proud and taut, bobbing in the wind, in all their air blown glory. I pass these smiling, cartoon characters every day when I’m on the road seeing home care clients, running errands, or en route …
My husband and I were at a show tonight at Mariposa le Café, our favourite hangout, when I received a text from my brother: Sharon, I just got home. Chantal got a variety of 7 different flower arrangements with vases from mom. She called the florist to see if there was a mistake. Do you …
I had a whole list of errands to do today including taking my new wide-leg black velvet pants to be hemmed (bought after reading about them on my lovely colleague’s blog), seasonal clothes shopping for my mother (who sadly, along with my sister, used to do my clothes shopping), and a dollar store run to …
My husband just announced, « Dick Van Dyke turned one hundred. », and I’m like, « What, again?». It seems like I have been hearing about this milestone birthday forever. It turns out today is his actual birthday. Now that we have all arrived, can we please move on to Dick turning 101? I’ll be honest, his pathological …
I find myself in a quandary the past two weeks over a minor detail of my Christmas dinner planning. I have gone through the same dilemma three years in a row and have never managed to resolve it. I probably shouldn’t refer to it as a quandary, it certainly isn’t a matter of life or …
When I was younger I was easily influenced by other people’s sense of what would suit me better than my own sense of style. Sometime in 1994, my fashionable older friend convinced me that all I needed to do in order to generate more interest from the opposite sex was to part my hair on …
I am hosting Christmas dinner this year. There will be a total of eight people around a table equipped for three. How does someone who doesn’t cook and who suffers from social anxiety cope with this ? Apart from finding a local caterer to supply the turkey dinner and trimmings, she doesn’t. Instead, she self-medicates …
Updates to our electrical panel to avoid a catastrophe.
I am currently reading Margaret Atwood’s latest tome: Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, and absolutely loving it. The details she offers in this autobiography are mind-boggling considering I barely remember what I did on the weekend. For example, she recalls her high school home economics classes including her experience directing and acting in …
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